All Octave Mirbeau Quotes
- When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. Decay
- There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity. Depression
- Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix… All
- Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity. Always See
- Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love. Cruel
- Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to… Absurd
- Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror. Actual
- Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love. All
- The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its… Appears
- Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour… Any
- Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder. Attains
- To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over… Business
- While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed… Born
- Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy. Come Now
- The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes. Bomb
- The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke. Bombs
- You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you… Absurd